Your privacy is important to MAXIMUS.We understand your need to be in control of your personal information. Our Internet privacy policy is: You do not have to give us personal information to visit our site. We may collect personally identifiable identification (name, street address, email address, etc.) only if specifically and knowingly provided by you. Personally identifying information collected will be used only for such purposes as are described at the point of collection. We will not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personally identifying information you supply us to third parties.

Cookies What is a cookie? A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser, along with a Web page, when you access a Web site. There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's memory. A session cookie is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive.

MAXIMUS uses session cookies only. We do not use any persistent cookies.

How Does MAXIMUS use Cookies? Cookies are used to remember your user information for this web application. It also allows us to improve our website. We can learn what information is important to you, our visitor. We can then revise our website to better meet the users needs.

If you do not have cookies enabled, you will not be able to use this web application. If you do have cookies enabled, your preferences will be saved for the entire visit to the site. This preference will not be saved between site visits, however.

We have set our software so that your browser will only return cookie information to the domain where the cookie originated. No other site can request it. Note: Regardless of the particular uses for cookies on our Web site, we will not share any cookie information with any third parties.

You can order your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered. Then you can decide whether to accept one or not.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0:

Choose Tools, then

Internet Options.

Click the Security tab,

Click Internet, then Custom Level.

Scroll down to Cookies and choose one of the two options.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

Choose View, then

Internet Options.

Click the Advanced tab,

Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

In Internet Explorer 3.0, you can View, Options, Advanced and click on the button that says Warn Before Accepting "Cookies."

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0: On your Task Bar, click:

Edit, then

Preferences, then

Click on Advanced.

Set your options in the box labeled "Cookies".

Disclosure We do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to this website or information that you may give us, such as your name, address, E-mail address or telephone number, to any outside company or organization. Again, please be aware that at this time electronic mail is currently not secure against interception.

Privacy Policy Changes If we decide to change our privacy promise for this website, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone.

Should MAXIMUS develop new on-line services, MAXIMUS will continue to maintain our dedication to customer privacy and that information provided by customers is properly used, maintained and appropriately safeguarded.